Test 2 · ★ · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…

Bro, what did the Barmecide want him to do after supper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Barmecide, him · What happens: do, want · To what, where: him

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Barmecide	det
6	Barmecide	Barmecide	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 supper	case
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past				Bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the Barmecide	him = he			tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here		after supper		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Live there and run the whole house with the servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Live	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 run	cc
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Live	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 servants	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servants	det
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	imperative	you not said here			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	infinitive	you not said here	the whole house				with the servants	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product with servant=Material

Option 2

Marry the cook and stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marry	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stay	cc
5	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Marry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	the cook					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Patient
2	stay	infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Live there and run the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Live	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 run	cc
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Live	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	imperative	you not said here			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	infinitive	you not said here	the house					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory

Option 4

Work the fields all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fields	det
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Work	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Work	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	imperative	you not said here	the fields			year		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent field=Material

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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